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that is very minor corrosion, a bit of wire brush and some sort of rust inhibitor (i use the ones that come as clear liquid, just be careful not to inhale it, quite toxic), but they work great on cars. The membranes well you will only find out when you open it up. usually you can clean up some black...

Chicony KB-5581 w/ trackball (& probably Cherry MX Blue) and a couple of other keyboards that I don't recognize for 300 CZK in Prague IBM Model M (1391412) in Bratislava, Slovakia gone about an hour later i'm 99% sure the other boards are monterey k208. Hard to see because of the foil, you might be...

seperated by all my keyboards (and most of my other stuff) by 300km due to moving soon. this is my work daily driver rn. gifted to me during dt secret santa, modified with some nice, thick ds alps keycaps. those white alps clones really sing in that flimsy plastic chassis. I love it ! IMG_5442.jpeg...

I’m always thinking about making wired boards wireless, thanks to Hasu so revolutionising my HHKBs. I put in so much time on these guys because of how convenient and compelling they are. My Realforce could sorely need some of that love, but the great big beige USB A cable on it (uncoiled and hangin...

Go-Kart wrote: ↑

03 Feb 2024, 01:13

Missed my Bigfoot. Picked this Old Logo up last week. First experience of Pine Blacks - like 'em.

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I only got the newer bigfoots, but i also quite like em pretty keyboard you've got!

This is a drawer-type structure that allows the player to finish assembling the liner before the front sequence, and then finally just push the tray into the space capsule and you’re done. Isn’t it very simple and even a bit “novelty”? Maybe I'm too old and tired, but I didn't understand a single w...

Yes, chat and forums are completely different things. Forums have whole threads grouped together for all time, searchable and browsable. Chat prizes the opposite: its ever drifting immediacy. The popular assumption seems to be that there’s a generational divide, however, with younger people preferr...

The recent several days downtime was long enough to finally get me on "DT" Discord. It's… different. We complained about DT's hosting a lot and discussed archival, but keyboards not so much. I’m just more at home on a forum with persistent state than live text. Same, I still use IRC some but it's n...

Muirium wrote: ↑

26 Jan 2024, 21:42

Suffering succotash! You done fixed it. What an upgrade.

huge upgrade to me! i think i like the box pink switches a bit more than the jades. Also those black caps look much better i think

I think this case is so much more attractive looking than the usual cherry style.

Another one of my 1800s undergone the same surgery this time it was a bit easier

rocco_16v wrote: ↑

28 Dec 2023, 08:39

Main home setup M122 + DT225


Secondary computer DataComp DFK191

Really nice boards. Lovely

Some more interesting boards i recently got and fooled around with: Wyse pce which i bought already outfitted with box jades. Desoldered original controller, soldered in stm32 blackpill, and managed to power it through the original port, with a matching cable: photo_2024-01-26_20-04-57 (2).jpg regul...

Buzzer would be pretty neat if it's actually enabled in firmware. You should be able to check for a signal on whatever pin goes between Q2 and the controller. If you see a square wave blip when you push a key then you're good to go. Do a bit of reverse engineering and figure out which pins are CBE ...

Buzzer would be pretty neat if it's actually enabled in firmware. You should be able to check for a signal on whatever pin goes between Q2 and the controller. If you see a square wave blip when you push a key then you're good to go. Do a bit of reverse engineering and figure out which pins are CBE ...

Hello, I have recently gotten sick so, having some spare time at my hands i've decided to have a go at restoring one of my weirder boards, this thing: board.jpg It has the "monogram" switches, a clicky variant, very interesting and pleasant to me but they were a bit scratchy, so i decided to desolde...

…make a new steel backplate with threads in the backplate itself… Rolling steel into a Model F or M shaped curve is, apparently, quite difficult and very tedious. The only one I've dealt with was the backplate someone rolled me for the XTant, which they swore was the last they'd ever do! It was a b...

I think the best and most reliable solution for this problem would be to make a new steel backplate with threads in the backplate itself. I was thinking about doing that for my own keyboards, as having to use that many nuts is infuriating. (i've done a bit of bolt mods). the threaded inserts Jsherad...

Muirium wrote: ↑

22 Nov 2023, 21:27

Still sexeh. You done good. Just love those vents!

Thank you i think it looks very like an industrial grade equipment (this is actually paint designed for painting iron machinery so...)

I went for hammerite hammered finish gray. This paint was way too thick for the 1,4mm nozzle that came with my HVLP gun, so i had to dilute it with xylene thinner (nasty stuff) for it to even come out of the gun. The finish would be looking better if i had a proper nozzle and diluted the paint less,...

I'd leave it naked. Bare metal. 8-) Or will it tarnish? Could a clear coating work? Or do you just want a more original beige aesthetic? it will rust slowly, the palmrest area probably not because it's constantly polished a bit from use :lol: i kinda wanted to get close to the original colour, but ...

got some trouble with uploading files so sorry for double post
Now the hard part: which colour to paint it?

That's some great sheet metal fab work; nice job! Wyse stuff has always been no-nonsense serious business gear. Full metal case really adds to the industrial aesthetic. Relay as a clicker is a cool idea! Are you using a flyback diode? If not you should probably add one to prevent frying the transis...

Muirium wrote: ↑

08 Nov 2023, 21:31

Oh, magnificent!

Metal is so metal

i feel much more comfortable around metals than plastics

IMG_20231108_155235.jpg test fit of the new top case. I'm surprised it actually does fit like this first try :D The F-key cutouts are a bit skewed to one side, but i will fix that. other than that, it's mostly correct IMG_20231108_155310.jpg the cutouts i designed to match the original design work ...

techware top.PNG work in progress, sheetmetal top for that board. It will be 1,5mm steel. I went with the original wyse design with the little rectangular cutouts at the top, but i extended them over the entire top of the board, and they play nicely with the cutout for the relay, which will be now ...

A small update, i have prepared the factory cable, soldering usb connector to it, somebody has already cut it before i got the board so i wasn't feeling too bad about doing this. Fits the board much better than generic usb-c cable

That's an awesome project. I'm thinking of cutting and bending (i have a sheet metal roller at my workshop) a plate for this. I am not too updated though on the whole buckling spring state of things currently though. Except of the pcb, i assume the barrels, flippers and springs are aviable as new? B...

Here is a little typing demo, also i have added a fun feature to the relay it was a tight fit, and some fiddling with very thin wire